Container for a toy comprising different parts

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a hollow case ( 1 ) comprising at least to parts ( 1   a   , 1   b ) which is closed at the out set and which is used to house the different parts of a toy before being opened. The aforementioned different parts can include hoops ( 2 ), connectors ( 3 ), sleeves ( 4 ), feet ( 5 ) and other elements. The surface of the case ( 1 ) is provided with a plurality of holes ( 10   a   , 10   b ) which can be connected to the above mentioned different parts such that said case ( 1 ) forms a base part of the toy comprising different parts.

Container for a toy comprising different parts that relates to a hollowcase, especially with spherical form, comprising at least two parts,which is closed at the outset and which is used to house the differentparts of a toy before being opened, as hoops, connectors, sleeves, feet,and other elements, the surface of the case being provided with aplurality of holes, of different sizes and forms, which can be connectedto the above mentioned different parts such that said case forms a basepart of the toy comprising different parts.

BACKGROUNDS OF THE INVENTION

It is known the Spanish Utility Model No. 9001275 (1013903) that relatesto a container or case, with ovoidal form, for gift purposes, with alid, giving to the owner the possibility to re-use it. This utilitymodel has the inconvenience that it is very difficult to serve it in avending machine, for example, the one that it requires containers ofspherical cases, much more easily to sell that one ovoidal case thatwill occupy more space.

In the European Patent No. 0688718 of FERRERO, S.p.A., it is described agoods packing machine which products are inside containers or cases tobe sold, but said cases after being used they should be thrown out.

Spanish Utility Model No. 8903455 (1012083) relates to a container withtwo functions, a safe closure means that had to be broken and moreoverit includes two different objects inside. In this utility model it iseasily to demonstrate that the container has no utility and can not bere-used.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PATENT

The object of the present invention refers to a container for a toycomprising different parts and, particularly but not exclusively, to acontainer that habitually is sold in machines with a coin device andthat relates to a case or a hollow body, inside of which usuallycontains a small size toy, disassembled, that the children will have toassemble proving their ability.

When children acquires this toy then, open the case and start toassemble the toy; such case, that already has fulfilled its purpose tocontain the toy temporarily, comes to a hindrance for the child andfinishes, unquestionably, being thrown to the rubbish.

According to the invention, one of the main advantages of the presentcontainer relates to, as it will be explained in the specification asfollows, the case that, initially contains the toy, constitutes a basicelement of the same one and helps to assemble it and even it can beassembled with other analogous cases to constitute a group toy.

Therefore, with the container for a toy comprising different partsaccording to the invention, the case that initially contains the toyneither constitutes any wastefulness of material nor constitutes anyhindrance, because it is a part of the same toy.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

With the purpose to facilitate the explanation three sheets of drawingsare attached to the present specification, in which a practical case ofan embodiment has been reproduced, which is mentioned only forexemplificative purposes, non limitative of the scope of the presentinvention, in which:

FIG. 1 shows a sectioned elevation view of the basic case of the toycomprising different parts in opened position.

FIG. 2 refers to a perspective view that shows a complementary part ofthat basic case.

FIG. 3 is another perspective view that shows a connector between twobasic cases or analogous elements to assemble a group toy, as it will beshown and seen as follows.

FIG. 4 is another view, in side perspective, of an auxiliary componentof that basic case.

FIG. 5 shows an example of composition with the basic case of FIG. 1 andseveral components like the one of FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 represents another example of composition with several basicparts of FIG. 1 and other so many connectors of FIG. 3 simulating anatomic nucleus.

And FIG. 7 illustrates another example, as a tower, built as asuccession of elements as the one of FIG. 2 at the top of which there isa semicase and basic portions.

CONCRETE EMBODIMENT OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

According to such figures, the present container for a toy comprisingdifferent parts, object of the present invention, consists on a basiccase 1 that initially contains several elements of a toy, such as a hoop2, a connector 3, sleeves 4, feet 5, a head 6, a cap 7, a fragmentedbase 8 and others, being capable of fitting together to the mentionedbasic case.

The mentioned basic case (FIG. 1) has a spherical form 1, preferably(without excluding other possible forms), and is formed by two halves 1a, 1 b, one of them 1 a shows a perimetrical step 9 being capable offitting together in the inlet/outlet of other half 1 b and is provided,in its surface, by a plurality of holes 10.

These holes of the case or sphere will be able to be rectangulars 10 a,circulars 10 b or with any other form, depending on the element orauxiliary part that has to be connected to them.

On the other hand, hoop 2 (FIG. 2) also has a perimetral step 12 in oneof its inlets being capable of fitting together to the outlet of theother half of that case 1 or in the corresponding outlet of anotheranalogous hoop.

The connector 3 between cases or spheres 1 is constituted by a smallhoop 13 (FIG. 3) from which radially starts a plurality of fins 14 endedin respectively nerves 15, parallels to the axis of the same small hoop13, which nerves stand out by at least one end of the respective fin 14.This connector has been represented, in this concrete embodiment, as itis shown in FIG. 3, but it could be a circular rod or any other elementthat serves for the purposes of the mentioned union.

Sleeve 4 (FIG. 4) is constituted by a moulded extended element,laterally flattened and hollow, from whose lower end it stands out alobe 16 being capable of connecting it, for example, in a foot 5 offlattened constitution, while from its upper end two pairs of lobes 17stand out being capable of connecting in respective holes 10 a of thesurface of the sphere 1.

With the mentioned parts, that are, sphere 1, sleeves 4 p and foot 5 canbe built, for example, a toy as an animal 18 (FIG. 5) that will end withsomething similar to a grotesque head 6. In this case, the sleeve 4 cwill work as a neck.

Also, with exemplificative purposes, a connector 3, by means of itsstand-out tips of its ending nerves 15, is connected to a sphere 1 (FIG.6), at the same time that by the other side the same connector 3 isconnected to another sphere; the same thing will be done with the otherconnectors and other analogous spheres forming a something similar to anatomic nucleus 20.

Using several hoops 2, like the one of FIG. 2 (that it will be able tohave different lengths or heights, opaque or transparent) successivelyconnected and upperly and lowerly ended by respective parts of thesphere 1 and the cap 7 and supported in several lower basic parts 8,will be built the tower 21 as it is shown in FIG. 7.

The parts and examples of figures before mentioned must be understood ina illustrative and non limitative sense, depending each toy on thenumber and forms of the parts included in each basic case, as well asthe ability and imagination of composition of each child.

Therefore, the skilled persons in the state of the art will be able tocarry out different amendments that must be interpreted at sight of thepresent invention, as it is defined in the claims as follows.

1. Container for a toy comprising different parts, related to a hollowcase, constituted by at least two semi-cases, which is closed at theoutset and which is used to house the different parts of the toy beforebeing opened, being said different parts hoops, connectors, sleeves,feet and others, characterized in that: the case is equipped in itssurface by a plurality of holes, placed in successively way, in at leasttwo concentric circumferences per semi-case, in such a way that saidholes are placed one almost parallel to the next, being capable saidholes of being connected by the before mentioned parts, connectors,sleeves, feet and others, and said parts include ends, where there areplaced lobes in two by two, being said ends configured in such a way toadapt to the shape of the case, and in such a way that each one of theseparts, when being connected with the respective holes of the case,constitutes a basic part of the mentioned toy comprising differentparts.
 2. A container in accordance to claim 1 characterized in that thementioned holes can be rectangular or circular.
 3. A container inaccordance to claim 1 characterized in that each mentioned connector isconstituted by a small hoop from which starts radially a plurality offins ended in individual nerves, one of whose tips of each nerve, atleast, stands out of the own fin and said nerve tips are capable of,from both sides of the connector, being inserted in the correspondingholes of the respective analogous cases.
 4. A container in accordance toclaim 1 characterized in that each sleeve has several lobes in one end,in two by two, and placed parallel or almost parallel, and capable ofconnecting them in the respective holes of the case, as well as onelobe, at least, is capable of fitting into an appropriate part, as forexample a foot.